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Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury . The community seceded from Roxbury during the formation of West Roxbury in 1851 and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed in 1874. [ 1 ]
The Sumner Hill Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of high-quality late 19th-century residences in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Carolina Avenue, and Newbern Street just east of the neighborhoods commercial Centre Street area.
First Church of Jamaica Plain. July 15, 1988 : 6 Eliot St. Jamaica Plain: 78 ... Massachusetts Historical Society Building. October 15, 1966 1154 Boylston St. ...
In the state of Massachusetts, there are over 4,300 listings, representing about 5% of all NRHP listings nationwide and the second-most of any U.S. state, behind only New York. Listings appear in all 14 Massachusetts counties.
Jamaica Plain 42°18′42″N 71°07′03″W / 42.3117°N 71.1175°W / 42.3117; -71.1175 ( Ellen Swallow Richards Residence Home of Ellen Swallow Richards , who was the first female graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the first woman to receive an advanced degree in chemistry .
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Monument Square Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of Monument Square in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The 43 acres (17 ha) district is bounded on the northwest by Pond Street, the northeast by Myrtle and Pond Streets, the southeast by Centre Street (excluding the commercial properties on Centre Street itself), and Holbrook and ...
This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts. Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln , ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District , in Salem , Massachusetts , United States.